Witness of the Universe

3. Witness of the Universe ~ 59 ~ and by the strict division of labour. But man creates disorder by breaking rules. Ants and birds rely on their own labour for their subsistence instead of snatching others’ food, whereas man exploits his fellow beings in order to fill his own belly. No wild animal attacks and kills its own kind, but man does not shrink from shedding human blood. Even reptiles harm other creatures only when they have to defend themselves. Man oppresses his fellow beings irrationally, and adopts gluttonous ways in all his affairs, while animals eat, copulate or build abodes just to satisfy the basic need and urge. Animals engage themselves in their own specific spheres, while man is fond of interfering in others’ spheres. Scores of sheep intermingled with another flock will gather around their own shepherd whenever he calls them. But the human being is different from all other animals. When man is called to God and His Prophet, he deliberately ignores the call. Man’s existence, be it as small as a grain of mustard, is a part of the universe. Therefore, no course other than that followed by the greater universe will do man any good. Where man chooses a separate path,